Celebrity feuds are the modern thing, and Oasis are the masters of the game, having kicked it all off with their working-class heroes vs Blur spat back in 1995. They've barely paused for breath since, but today Noel and Liam have been confronted with a new kind of adversary, one that can only be combated with frequent consultation of a dictionary.

It should come as no surprise that this attack has come from Bloc Party. In an articulately worded, but no less bitchy, attack on Oasis, Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke told Uncut magazine that: "I think Oasis are the most overrated and pernicious band of all time. They had a totally negative and dangerous impact upon the state of British music."

Hmm, pernicious. Next to pernickety. It turns out Okereke's comments are a finely-phrased response to the more imprudent analysis made two years ago by Noel Gallagher, who when asked about Bloc Party on an Australian radio show called them "indie shit."

But Okereke wasn't content with just one riposte. Trawling the thesaurus for further jibes, the singer claimed Oasis "made stupidity hip. They claim to be inspired by the Beatles but, and this so saddens me, they have failed to grasp that the Beatles were about constant change and evolution. Oasis are repetitive Luddites." His attack goes on in this vein, throwing in words like "ephemera", "irks" and "airy-fairy" along the way, before Okereke moves on to discuss the merits of various different Class A drugs.

Meanwhile, in a two up, two down somewhere in Primrose Hill, Noel Gallagher is seething with rage as he Googles the words "pernicious" and "Luddite" and discovers he's being made out to be some kind of Neanderthal. Stay tuned for more.